Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick
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HarperCollins · Ebook · April 16, 2013
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- Who it’s for
- These stories turn ordinary life into a puzzle about time, technology, and what counts as real.
- Themes
- Technological control, Displacement in time, Uncertain reality
- Genres
- Sci-Fi Short Stories, Short Stories (Single Author), Dystopian
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Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick contains twenty-one of Dick’s most dazzling and resonant stories, which span his entire career and show a world-class writer working at the peak of his powers. In “The Days of Perky Pat,” people spend their time playing with dolls who manage to live an idyllic life no longer available to the Earth’s real inhabitants. “Adjustment Team” looks at the fate of a man who by mistake has stepped out of his own time.
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In “Autofac,” one community must battle benign machines to take back control of their lives. And in “I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon,” we follow the story of one man whose very reality may be nothing more than a nightmare. The collection also includes such classic stories as “The Minority Report,” the basis for the Steven Spielberg movie, and “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale,” the basis for the film Total Recall. With an introduction by Jonathan Lethem, Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick is a magnificent distillation of one of American literature's most searching imaginations.
Reality, Unsettled
These stories turn ordinary life into a puzzle about time, technology, and what counts as real.
Come here for
- Dolls, machines, and mistaken steps outside time
- Classic stories collected across Dick’s career
Expect
- Twenty-one stories, from sly unease to full-blown reality trouble
- Speculative ideas with everyday lives at stake
Where it sits
| Sci-Fi Short Stories | 84% |
|---|---|
| Short Stories (Single Author) | 61% |
| Dystopian | 53% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- The Classics
- Epic Fantasy
- Literary Fiction
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- Psychological Fiction
- Sci-Fi Short Stories
- Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic
- Time Travel Fiction
- Authors
- Philip K. Dick
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- April 16, 2013
- Format
- Ebook
- Theme
- Technological control · Displacement in time · Uncertain reality
- Reading lane
- The Classics